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Samira Ahmed
A Hard Day's Night

BFI Film Classics

How did a film made to capture a pop phenomenon become an enduring cinematic classic? With warmth, wit and precision, Samira Ahmed reveals how the Beatles' first film changed both the band themselves and …

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Corinn Columpar
Beau travail

BFI Film Classics

Beau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an a…

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James Leggott
Billy Elliot

BFI Film Classics

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the UK miners' strike (1984-5), Billy Elliot (2000) follows eleven-year-old Billy as he pursues his dream of becoming a ballet dancer. Hailed for its heartfelt portra…

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Vlad Dima
Black Girl (La Noire de...)

BFI Film Classics

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century. Black Girl was his…

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Jon Lewis
Die Hard

BFI Film Classics

Upon its release, John McTiernan'sDie Hard(1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academy Awar…

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Anupama Chopra
Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge

BFI Film Classics

A new edition of Anupama Chopra's study of Aditya Chopra's romantic drama, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), in the BFI Film Classics series.

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Richard Schickel
Double Indemnity

BFI Film Classics

Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled crim…

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Lee Hill
Easy Rider

BFI Film Classics

Easy Rider (1969) broke the mould of Hollywood studio production, making stars of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, and launching a new wave of radical and experimental American cinema. One o…

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Dana Polan
Goodfellas

BFI Film Classics

Martin Scorsese's 1990 movie Goodfellas, s tarring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and fam…

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Matthew Tinkcom
Grey Gardens

BFI Film Classics

The Maysles brothers' documentary film Grey Gardens (1975) chronicles the everyday lives of two eccentric upper-class women, Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith. The film has gained the status of cul…

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Ryan Gilbey
Groundhog Day

BFI Film Classics

Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold?Ramis and starring Bill?Murray, is widely regarded as one of the most original and enduring films of 1990s Hollywood. What begins as a high-concept romantic comedy…

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Youngmin Choe
Hanyo (The Housemaid)

BFI Film Classics

The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy. The d…

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Nick James
Heat

BFI Film Classics

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight…

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Julia Wagner
Hester Street

BFI Film Classics

Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives i…

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Mark Sinker
if....

BFI Film Classics

In his compelling study of if.... (1968), starring which stars Malcolm McDowell as an English public school student who leads a guerrilla insurgence, Mark Sinker traces director Lindsay Anderson's depicti…

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Tony Rayns
In the Mood for Love (Huayang Nianhua)

BFI Film Classics

Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in …

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Barry Keith Grant
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

BFI Film Classics

With its narrative of emotionless alien duplicates replacing average folk, Don Siegel's 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers was the first post-war horror film to locate the monstrous in the everyday, thus…

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Lynda Nead
It Always Rains on Sunday

BFI Film Classics

Robert Hamer's 'Dark Ealing'It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) is a claustrophobic domestic melodrama, combining elements of film noir and gritty realism, in the story of a frustrated housewife, Rose Sandig…

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Antonia Quirke
Jaws

BFI Film Classics

A study of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) in the BFI Film Classics series, publishing to tie in with the film's 50th anniversary.

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Lalitha Gopalan
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers)

BFI Film Classics

Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti (Waheed…

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